"moor, she comes across Jem, leading a cart with all of his possessions, headed in the opposite direction of Helford. After some discussion, Mary decides to abandon her plans to return to Helford to go with Jem. The characters presented throughout the novel include (in order of introduction): Jamaica Inn (novel) Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called ""Jamaica Inn"", directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay"
"Jamaica Inn Jamaica Inn is a traditional inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Built as a coaching inn in 1750, and having an association with smuggling, it was the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel ""Jamaica Inn"", which was made into the film ""Jamaica Inn"" in 1939 by Alfred Hitchcock. Located just off the A30, near the middle of the moor close to the hamlet of Bolventor, it was used as a staging post for changing horses. As well as the Hitchcock film, there has been a 1983 television series, ""Jamaica Inn"", starring Jane Seymour, and a"
"which she had spun her popular novel ""Jamaica Inn"", which was adapted into a melodramatic film of the same name made by Alfred Hitchcock. Before living in the inn, she had resided in Fowey estuary, a house in Bodinnick and subsequently in Menabilly. She described the nocturnal activities of a smuggling ring based at the now celebrated inn, ""portraying a hidden world as a place of tense excitement and claustrophobia of real peril and thrill."" It should be noted though that in Du Maurier's novel, the Jamaica Inn is not functioning as an inn with many guests as it did"
"""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", drank at The Baron of Beef also, according to an interview on ""The South Bank Show"". The Baron of Beef The Baron of Beef is a pub in Bridge Street, Cambridge, England, owned by Bob Jones. Michael Peacock, columnist of the ""Town Crier"", gave his former paper, the ""Daily Mirror"", a story about Chris Curry and Clive Sinclair having a fight there. This was allegedly over Curry's decision to leave Sinclair to join Hermann Hauser to establish Acorn Computers in competition with Sinclair's ZX80 microcomputer. This was dramatised in the 2009 BBC Four television"
"Frenchman's Creek (novel) Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II, it tells the story of a love affair between an impulsive English lady, Dona, Lady St. Columb, and a French pirate, Jean-Benoit Aubéry. Dona, Lady St. Columb, makes a sudden visit with her children to Navron, her husband's remote estate in Cornwall, in a fit of disgust with her shallow life in London court society. There she finds that the property, unoccupied for several years, is being used as a base by a notorious French pirate who"
"inn. It is bypassed by a dual carriageway section of the A30 trunk road; before the bypass was built the hamlet straddled the A30 road. Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled ""Jamaica Inn"". The inn that inspired the novel, Jamaica Inn, has stood beside the main road through the village since 1547. It is now a tourist attraction in its own right and dominates the hamlet. The small church (dedicated to the Holy Trinity) that lies to the east of the hamlet closed some years ago. A mile"
"to the Cat and Custard Pot.> The village pub's unusual name is said to originate from the book 'Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt' by Robert Smith Surtees. The full text of which (including colour prints. The present building erected in 1864 replaced a church with a record going back to Norman times. Part of the North aisle and the porch were preserved and the Eastcourt Chapel on the South side and part of the nave, the central tower being demolished and the nave extended to form an enlarged chancel. A South aisle was constructed with a new tower at"
"Hungry Hill (novel) Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1943. It was her seventh novel. There have been 33 editions of the book printed. This family saga is based on the history of the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier’s friend Christopher Puxley. The family resembles the Puxleys who owned mines in Allihies, a parish in County Cork. The story spans the century from 1820 to 1920 following five male characters from a family of Anglo-Irish landowners, the Brodricks, who live in a castle called Clonmere. It is divided into five sub-books"
"the Prospect of Whitby and the Cock Tavern. The Fitzroy Tavern is a pub situated at 16 Charlotte Street in the Fitzrovia district, to which it gives its name. It became famous (or according to others, infamous) during a period spanning the 1920s to the mid-1950s as a meeting place for many of London's artists, intellectuals and bohemians such as Dylan Thomas, Augustus John, and George Orwell. Several establishments in Soho, London, have associations with well-known, post-war literary and artistic figures, including the Pillars of Hercules, The Colony Room and the Coach and Horses. The Canonbury Tavern, Canonbury, was the"
"from the Fowey side of the ferry crossing. Nearby Lanteglos church is where Janet Coombe (Slade) was married and where Janet and other family members are buried. Daphne du Maurier was married at the same church in 1933 to Frederick Browning who had decided to visit Fowey having read the book ""The Loving Spirit"". The Loving Spirit The Loving Spirit was the first novel of Daphne du Maurier and was published in 1931 by William Heinemann. The book takes its name from a poem by Emily Brontë. Daphne du Maurier began work on the book in October 1929 at Ferryside,"
"Bruce, Rathbone's old Sherlock Holmes film partner, in their only non-Holmes/Watson screen appearance together. A television film of 1998 starred Tara FitzGerald as Dona, James Fleet as her husband, and Anthony Delon as the Frenchman. Whilst possibly more historically accurate, it varied greatly from the Du Maurier original. Frenchman's Creek (novel) Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II, it tells the story of a love affair between an impulsive English lady, Dona, Lady St. Columb, and a French pirate, Jean-Benoit Aubéry. Dona, Lady St. Columb, makes a"
"The Dove, Hammersmith The Dove is a Grade II listed public house at 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9TA. It dates from the early 18th century. A number of historical figures have been associated with the pub beside the River Thames. Among these are Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and William Morris who lived next door. James Thompson is said to have written the words for the 1740 song ""Rule, Britannia!"" there. The pub appears in the 1930 A. P. Herbert novel ""The Water Gipsies"", loosely disguised as the fictitious ""The Pigeons"". The front bar of the pub"
"series ""Bosom Pals"", which was based on some of the characters in Cook's paintings and featured the voices of Dawn French as the lead character Stella, Alison Steadman as her best friend Joan, and Timothy Spall as the Dolphin's real-life landlord Billy Holmes. Billy Holmes has been the landlord of the pub since the 1990s when he took it over from his parents. Dolphin Inn, Plymouth The Dolphin Hotel is a pub on the Barbican in Plymouth, England. The building, which is known as either the Dolphin Inn or Dolphin Hotel, is a Grade II listed building. It notable as"
"gutted by fire, caused by Jack Duckworth (William Tarmey), after he tried to fix the faulty lighting. During the inferno, she is rescued from her bedroom by Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell). While the pub is being refurbished, the nearby ""Graffiti Club"" in Rosamund Street enjoys a massive increase in trade. Its owner, Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough), starts sniffing about after The Rovers re-opens two months later. As the pub struggles to recover from the loss of business, Bet gets to know Alec and even books some of his acts to get the trade back up, leading to a love/hate"
"the Municipal Borough of Hornsey as their seat of government in 1933–35. It is now a Grade ll * listed building one of about 21,767 . The architect was the New Zealand-born Reginald Uren. The interior and exterior have been used several times as a location by the BBC 'Hours' The Hours(?) ""Adaptation of Michael Cunningham's novel. Three very separate women living in different locations are bound by their passion for Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway"".and other TV and films, including a scene in The Crown. The building is about to undergo renovation and conversion into a hotel, apartments and"
"demolished when Queen Victoria Street was built in the 1860s. Until 1872, it consisted of three distinct streets: Old Fish Street in the eastern portion, Little Knightrider Street in the middle portion and Great Knightrider Street in the western portion. The Centre Page pub on the street dates back to the 1660s, when it was known as the Horn; perhaps inevitably, David Hasselhoff, the star of the cult 1980s TV series ""Knight Rider"", has said that it is his favourite pub. Its name is first recorded in 1322 in the form of ""Knyghtridestrete""; other forms include ""Knyghtriderestrete"", ""Knyghtryderestrete"", ""Knyghtrederistret"" and"
"has been translated twice into English: In 1940, by Geoffrey Sainsbury (and reprinted variously as ""Maigret to the Rescue"", ""A Spot by the Seine"", and ""Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine"") and in 2003 by David Watson as ""The Bar on the Seine"" (reprinted in 2015 as ""The Two-Penny Bar""). The story has been dramatized twice; in 1962 as ""The Wedding Guest"" (with Rupert Davies in the main role), and in 1975 as ""La Guinguette a deux sous"" (Jean Richard). Guinguette by the Seine Guinguette by the Seine (Fr. ""La Guinguette a deux sous"", ""the Tuppenny Bar"") is a"
"The Loving Spirit The Loving Spirit was the first novel of Daphne du Maurier and was published in 1931 by William Heinemann. The book takes its name from a poem by Emily Brontë. Daphne du Maurier began work on the book in October 1929 at Ferryside, the du Mauriers' holiday home in Bodinnick, Cornwall. Ferryside is close to the harbour town of Polruan and opposite Fowey on the south coast of Cornwall. The novel tells the story of the Coombe family over four generations starting with Janet Coombe, Joseph Coombe, Christopher Coombe and Jennifer Coombe. The book is based on"
"noteworthy that it may definitely be recommended to all film-viewers."" In Peter Bogdanovich's interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Bogdanovich mentions that French critics writing for ""Cahiers du cinéma"" in the 1950s considered ""Under Capricorn"" one of Hitchcock's finest films. Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel ""Under Capricorn"" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted"
"the novel takes place. My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier ""Rebecca"", it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration. Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather, Nick Kendall, and his daughter"
"The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia The Wheatsheaf is a pub in Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London, that was popular with London's bohemian set in the 1930s. Customers including George Orwell, Dylan Thomas, Edwin Muir and Humphrey Jennings, were known for a while as the ""Wheatsheaf writers"" Other habitués included the singer and dancer Betty May, and the writer and surrealist poet Philip O'Connor, Nina Hamnett, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Anthony Carson and Quentin Crisp. In spring 1936, the poet Dylan Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara (1913–1994), a 22-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed dancer of Irish descent. She had run away from home, intent on making a career in"
"Davy Byrne's pub Davy Byrne's pub at 21 Duke Street, Dublin, was made famous by James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"". Leopold Bloom stops for a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy while wandering through Dublin. The pub is a pilgrimage point for fans of the novel, who, like Leopold Bloom, stop and have a cheese sandwich and a glass of wine. The pub is particularly popular on Bloomsday. Joyce also mentioned the pub in the short story ""Counterparts"" in ""Dubliners"" as a bar visited by the office clerk protagonist named Farrington following an altercation with his senior at the"
"Duff Cooper, whose wife, previously Lady Diana Manners, was a former actress she used to visit on Broadway. Lady Diana was courted by Ernest Bevin, the Labour cabinet minister. She maintained a passion for tennis and French fashion. Moving in political circles, she returned to London to work for an imperial Conservative, Victor Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbroke. He found her offices in 17 Great College Street, but he was slightly drunk most of the time and inclined to nonchalance. On inheriting the title, he was forced to leave the House of Commons, but renounced his title to stand for election as"
"mentions that the proprietors, Matthew and Doll Harrison had a tame pet bear named Furze. Edes was a student of Christ Church and went on to become the Dean of Worcester and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible. The Bear is featured in Colin Dexter's novel Death Is Now My Neighbour. Inspector Morse seeks the aid of the pub's landlords (and tie experts), Steve and Sonya Lowbridge in identifying a tie from a photograph. It is also featured in the autobiography of Oxford-educated Australian arts leader Anthony Steel, who recalls Alan Course playing the"
"construction of a permanent pavement over Dame Lane. There is a stuffed fox on the ground floor snug of the Stag's Head, while a large stag's head decorates the main bar. The pub has appeared in many films, notably A Man of No Importance (film), starring Albert Finney and Educating Rita (film) starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters. Filming for Penny Dreadful (TV series) also took place both inside and outside the pub in February 2014. The establishment was sold in 2005 for €5.8M and bought by the Louis Fitzgerald Group. A number of changes have made to the pub"
"obtained a liquor licence and began his business which has continued for six generations. His wife's family, who owned the Weir, may have been serving food and drink even prior to that. In the 1800s, when Kilcolgan was a busy port, the cottage did a thriving business. In modern times, it has hosted many notables and celebrities, including Julia Roberts, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Woody Allen and the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's poem, ""Oysters"", was inspired by a memorable meal at Moran's. Moran's Oyster Cottage Moran's Oyster Cottage is a seafood restaurant and pub located"
"Daphne du Maurier, Leo Walmsley and Kenneth Grahame. Fowey was Quiller-Couch's main residence from 1892 onwards, and a number of his stories are set in 'Troy Town', a thinly disguised Fowey. The du Maurier Festival Society runs the Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature each May, the month of her birth. Various visual artists have had close connection with Fowey and lived there, including painters Fred Yates Andrew Litten and Amanda Hoskin who primarily paints the local coastline.. Fowey holds an annual Christmas craft market. The surrounding coastline of Fowey is popular with fishermen and spear-fishermen. Many sea creatures can"
"Dunboy or Dursey. The area is the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1943 novel ""Hungry Hill"" named after the mountain here, the highest peak in the Caha Mountains. The novel was subsequently made into a film. Castletownbere Castletownbere () is a town in County Cork in Ireland. It is located on the Beara Peninsula by Berehaven Harbour. It is also known as Castletown Berehaven. A regionally important fishing port, the town also serves as a commercial and retail hub for the local hinterland. Located on the Wild Atlantic Way, tourism is also important to the local economy. The area is"
"My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier ""Rebecca"", it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration. Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather, Nick Kendall, and his daughter Louise come to lunch"
"Not After Midnight Not After Midnight is a 1971 collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier. It was published in Britain under the title ""Not After Midnight"" by Gollancz (with a cover by Daphne du Maurier's daughter Flavia Tower), and published in America by Doubleday as Don't Look Now. The book contains several novella-length stories, all with different characters and themes but similar in that they touch on the supernatural or strange events. The Penguin Books edition, Harmondsworth and Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, was issued with the title ""Don't Look Now and Other Stories"" and a cover illustration by Charles"
"The Hobbit (pub) The Hobbit is a pub in the Bevois Valley area of Southampton, England. Previously the Portswood Hotel, it was named after J. R. R. Tolkien's book ""The Hobbit"" in 1989. In 2012 the pub was involved in a legal dispute with Middle-earth Enterprises, a company owned by film producer Saul Zaentz, over its use of the name. The Hobbit was originally known as the Portswood Hotel, and appears on 19th-century Ordnance Survey mapping. It was renamed The Hobbit in 1989. Its name is inspired by the race of the same name featured in the works of J."
"office. It is also mentioned in ""Green Rushes"", a short story collection by Maurice Walsh. Davy Byrne's pub Davy Byrne's pub at 21 Duke Street, Dublin, was made famous by James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"". Leopold Bloom stops for a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy while wandering through Dublin. The pub is a pilgrimage point for fans of the novel, who, like Leopold Bloom, stop and have a cheese sandwich and a glass of wine. The pub is particularly popular on Bloomsday. Joyce also mentioned the pub in the short story ""Counterparts"" in ""Dubliners"" as a bar visited"
"the novel ""Dracula"". This pub is also featured in ""Vercors""'s novel ""Les Animaux dénaturés"" (translated variously into English as ""You Shall Know Them, Borderline, and The Murder of the Missing Link""). The pub also appears in ""Whitechapel"", Series 4, Episode 4, where the body of a victim is discovered on the Thames shoreline. DS Miles briefly explains its history to DI Chandler. A photograph of the Malcolm Price Trio was taken inside the pub and featured on the front cover of their second LP, titled 'Way Down Town', in 1965. The pub is also reported to be the favourite pub"